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Educational Forums
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"Women Lighting the Way", May 31, 2007; Speaker: Karenna Gore Schiff, author of "Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America".
Lunch at Fran's, Hosted by Trustee Fran Hack, Monday, October 30, 2006; Speakers: Friendship Circle Grantee Representatives, an informal lunch for Trustees and their guests who would like to learn more about the JWF.
Young Women's Coffee and Conversation, Follow-up on "Preventing Affluenza", Tuesday, October 10, 2006; Speaker: Dr. Alicia Tisdale, JWF Trustee, a continuation conversation by popular demand for mothers and grandmothers of young children about raising children with grounded values in an environment of affluence and privilege.
Spring Luncheon with Maxine Clark, CEO of "Build-a-Bear", Monday, May 15, 2006; Speaker: Maxine Clark, Maxine's insights into women in business, corporate philanthropy and building a business.
PREVENTING "AFFLUENZA", Thursday, March 2, 2006; Speakers: Dr. Alicia Tisdale, Rabbi Aaron Bergman and Sandi Farber, M.A.; Raising children with grounded values in an environment of affluence and privilege.
"Brunch with Dr. Richard Maisel" at the Jewish Book Fair, November 11, 2005; Speaker: Dr. Richard Maisel, author of Biting the Hand that Starves You, conversations with the author about anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders that affect Jewish women and girls followed by Dr. Maisell's Jewish Book Fair talk.
"Desperate Housewives: Coping with Life's Demands", October 21, 2005; Speakers: Ellen Yashinsky-Chute, Terri Orbuch and Janice Tracht; a morning of discussion and self-discovery about what makes us feel desperate and how to cope successfully.
"Interactive Grant Writing Seminar", September 28, 2005; Speakers, Sharon Hart, JWF Chair and Joyce Keller, Executive Director of JARC; a seminar for area synagogues and agencies about seeking funds from the JWF and other community funding sources.
"Women Lighting the Way", June 28,2005, honoring Margot Halperin; Speaker: Susan Estrich; a Special Event to raise funds to support the JWF mission and goals.
"Understanding Your Child's Behavior: From Moodiness to Depression", January 21, 2005 a JWF / Henry Ford Health Systems Behavioral Health Services program an Henry Ford Medical Center in West Bloomfield with a panel of medical mental health experts discussion emotional health, when parents should become concerned and treatment options.
"Focus on the Heart: Recent Developments in Women's Heart Health", October 2004 a JWF / Women's Ministrelli Heart Center program at William Beaumont Hospital with a panel of experts on women's cardiac health, care, intervention and nutrition.
"An Evening with Abe Foxman", June, 2004 a JWF Pre-glow and discussion with Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, followed by his keynote address.
"Mean Girls", March, 2004 a special production for Trustees, family members and invited guests, of the play, "Mean Girls" about peer pressure and bullying among teen age girls, commissioned by JET Theatre with a grant from the JWF.
"The Future of Ancient Medicine: A Program about Integrative Medicine", January, 2003 a program about how forward looking medical scientists are learning from the past given by the Integrative Medicine Department doctors from University of Michigan Medical School.
Book Review of Woman's Inhumanity to Woman, by Phyllis Chesler, with Speaker Dr. Roberta Toll, a JWF Trustee.
"Women Lighting the Way", June, 2003 honoring Penny Blumenstein, first woman President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit; Speaker: DeeDee Myers, first woman Presidential Press Secretary June, 2004
Annual Open Meetings of the Board of Directors
- September 2001:
Speaker: Susan Weidman Schneider, Editor of Lillith, a Jewish Feminist Magazine
- September, 2002:
Speaker: Nancy Schwartz Sternoff, Director of the Dobkin Family Foundation
- September, 2003:
Speaker: Geneva Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of New Detroit
- September, 2004:
Speaker, Barbara Berman Dobkin, Chair of the Hadassah Foundation; Philanthropist and Leader of the Women's Funding Movement
- September, 2005:
Speakers, 2005 Grantees with special remarks about PACT=Netanya by The Honorable Helene White, JWF Trustee, Detroit Chair of PACT-Netanya, State Court of Appeals Judge
- September, 2006:
Speakers, 2006 Grantees and Karen Alpiner, JWF Trustee, accepting on behalf of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for the Israel Emergency Special Allocation for a Trauma Response project in northern Israel
Educational Forum on Sexuality: Adolescents, Young Adults and Us, January, 2003 (Presented by MJAC/Jewish Women's Foundation)
Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Dialogue with the Experts, November, 2002 (Presented by a panel of experts at William Beaumont Hospital)
Machon L'Torah's Uniquely Ours program, October 2002 (funded in part by the Jewish Women's Foundation)
Speaker, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis
"What Does Judaism Mean to You?", April, 2002 (Presented by the JWF - A roundtable discussion of women, spirituality and Judaism
Educational Forum for Blended Families; When More than Two Say "I Do"
April, 2002 (Presented by the Single Jewish Parent Network and JWF)
50th Annual Jewish Book Fair, November, 2001 (JWF Co-sponsored two books), Martyr's Crossing by Amy Wilentz, and Emotional Infidelity by M. Gary Neuman
Educational Town Hall Meeting - "Women and Islam", November, 2001 (A panel of women from the Detroit area Muslim Community, shortly after 9/11)
Educational Forum "Women and Perfectionism - Myth and Madness", April, 2001 (A panel of doctors and psychologists discussed the manifestations and pressures of perfectionism in the lives of Jewish women )
Jewish Women's Foundation Fall Forum 2000, November, 2000
Keynote Speaker: Jean Sherman Chatzky, author and finance expert
Educational Forum "Focus on Heart Disease in Women", August, 2000
(presented by the Women's Heart Center of William Beaumont Hospital and the JWF)
Jewish Women's Foundation Fall Forum 1999, November 1999
Keynote Speaker, Suze Orman, on investing, financial independence and well-being for women
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